Truman is told about the bomb
1945 · Event
Twelve days after becoming president on Roosevelt's death, Truman is briefed by Stimson and Groves on a weapon he knew nothing of as vice-president — 'the most terrible weapon ever known in human history'. The decision to use it will be his within four months.
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